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Enzymes Involved in Ascorbate Biosynthesis and Metabolism in Plants

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Ascorbic Acid in Plants

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Although several pathways for ascorbate biosynthesis have been successively proposed in plants, more evidence from biochemistry and genetics indicates that Smirnoff pathway is the major mechanism by which plants synthesize ascorbate. With the cloning of the gene encoding the last step enzyme in Smirnoff pathway in 2007, all the genes encoding for the key enzymes in Smirnoff pathway have been identified in Arabidopsis.

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Zhang, Y. (2013). Enzymes Involved in Ascorbate Biosynthesis and Metabolism in Plants. In: Ascorbic Acid in Plants. SpringerBriefs in Plant Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4127-4_7

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